Former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, was on Friday sentenced to 10 years and 6 months
in jail by the Bailey Criminal Court for conspiring to traffic a young street trader from Nigeria to Britain to harvest his kidney for his daughter.
The judge said organ harvesting is a “despicable trade” and all the three defendants — Ekweremadu, his wife, Beatrice, and the Nigerian doctor, Obinna Obeta — were involved in the crime.
Counsel to Beatrice pointed out that she has already spent 200 days in custody, adding that any long sentence would have a “significant impact” on her daughter, Sonia, who already felt guilty for what has happened.
The judge, however, sentenced Beatrice to six years while Dr Obeta was jailed for 10 years.
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